On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:48:12AM -0500, Kurt A. Rinehart wrote:
I can't get XWin to open. The X icon shows in the system tray, but
xterm does not start and no other X-application can be started either.
I followed advice for a similar problem in an earlier post--I
uninstalled McAfee
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:45:06AM -0600, Matthew Snow wrote:
Neither will work while the other is installed. For testing purposes:
Cygwin error message when running startxwin.bat:
A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information.
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 04:43:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am receiving the following errors when I attempt to access Cygwin.
SNIP
It would probably be worthwhile to read
http://cygwin.com/problems.html
In addition you might want to read
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:58:16PM +0200, SaSHa SHokovic wrote:
im new in this mailing list, so i dont have any archyve about this
problem. I want to use XWin.exe and im getting that where is no
cygwin1.dll, i reinstalled it, bet it didnt help. Is there any procedure
how can i solve it?
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:11:11PM -0700, Shah Sharif wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to run X server after my I have intalled
the cygwin.
I have chosen to install 'all' the packages.
In order to run the X server I have typed in the
following command:
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx
After typing that
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:58:51AM -0400, Francois Couillard wrote:
Okay when I'm trying to launch xwin from Cygwin prompt I get a Could
not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from
list.
In the Cygwin/X FAQ, they say to fix this problem by
a. Open a Cygwin shell
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:47:13AM -0400, Francois Couillard wrote:
Ken Dibble wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:20:09PM -0400, Francois Couillard wrote:
I'm using windows 2000 to connect to a Debian Sarge server.
Using Cygwin, I'm typing xwin -query myip to connect to my Debian
server
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:20:09PM -0400, Francois Couillard wrote:
I'm using windows 2000 to connect to a Debian Sarge server.
Using Cygwin, I'm typing xwin -query myip to connect to my Debian
server. Theres only a grey screen that appears with an 'x' cursor. I
also tried xwin -query
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:27:41PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To whom it may concern,
All 4 methods outlined in the User's Guide of launching xorg/XWin produced
similar errors. Further, attempts to cut-and-paste the contents of the
XWin.log or sending it as an attachement have
Trebor Sreyb wrote:
Is there some way to run startx without opening a
cygwin shell window? Or, alternatively, to exit the
shell window after the X window manager has
successfully started?
Otherwise, I find myself having to leave open a cygwin
shell window that is used for nothing other than
Brian Dessent wrote:
Ken Dibble wrote:
Am I not understanding the man page or am I so dense that I'm missing
something?
Yes you are missing something, and no 'mount -m' works perfectly fine.
If the cygdrive prefix has a space in it, using awk to print the fifth
word
Brian Dessent wrote:
Ken Dibble wrote:
mount -m | grep mount -u | tail -1 | awk -F'' '{ print $2 }'
as
echo 'mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /thing with spaces' | awk
-F'' '{ print $2 }'
results in
/thing with spaces
The awk part seems fine, but I don't know about
Brian Dessent wrote:
Ken Dibble wrote:
Well, maybe my installation is hosed then. I have installed for all
users, but mount -m returns
mount -f -s -b C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
mount -f -s -b C:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
mount -f -s -b C:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:36:16PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:23:00AM -0700, Linda W wrote:
Is there a way to find out in a bash script the cygdrive prefix?
I thought something simple like
mount -p|tail -1|cut -f1
but that
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:00:18PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:36:16PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:23:00AM -0700, Linda W wrote:
Is there a way to find
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:14:36PM -0700, L Anderson wrote:
Oops! I meant also to add that
mount -p | sed -nr '2s/(.*) +\S+ +\S+/\1/p'
is even a shorter version.
And it still includes trailing spaces in the eventual result.
cgf
In my attempt to
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:01:43PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:14:36PM -0700, L Anderson wrote:
Oops! I meant also to add that
mount -p | sed -nr '2s/(.*) +\S+ +\S+/\1/p'
is even a shorter version
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:14:54PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:01:43PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
In my attempt to understand, can you tell me where (and why) this would
fail?
mount -m | grep mount
Chris January wrote:
Alex Goldman wrote:
When Cygwin gets set up, it would be more user-friendly if it placed
two icons on the desktop:
one should start maximized Rxvt; another should start X with a couple
of xterms or whatever.
First-time users might think that the MS-DOS terminal is as
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Ken Dibble wrote:
Chris January wrote:
Alex Goldman wrote:
When Cygwin gets set up, it would be more user-friendly if it placed
two icons on the desktop:
one should start maximized Rxvt; another should start X with a
couple
I'm trying to script a cleanup of some directories prior to backup.
I'm having a heck of a time with some long filenames.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/Documents And Settings/Ken Dibble/Local
Settings/Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5
$ ls
450JUVMP ETYH0R2P QDB49KJ2 W1MRMJYV ZJH
Dave Korn wrote:
Original Message
From: Ken Dibble
Sent: 26 July 2005 17:16
I'm trying to script a cleanup of some directories prior to backup.
I'm having a heck of a time with some long filenames.
'doze and *nix both have path length limitations. Sometimes
lin q wrote:
Hi,
I just installed gv using the cygwin installer, I select Download
from the internet option and the install process runs for quite a while.
After that I run /usr/X11R6/bin/gv.exe and I saw this error,
gv: Unable to open the display.
What does that mean?
Should I
Patrick Sullivan wrote:
Hi,
I looked around and couldn't find out (from user guide or FAQs) how to
set my own alias settings for Cygwin.
I have Cywin installed on my PC (running Windows XP Professional).
There has to be a file somewhere, where I can add the alias settings,
but I am not
Martin, Charles W (US SSA) wrote:
XWin.log file contains the following:
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.1.0-5
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
XWin was started with the following command line:
xwin -query edeptpgrid20
ddxProcessArgument -
Seemanto Barua wrote:
Hi ,
I have installed cygwin for my windows XP from http://cygwin.com/. The
installation went fine without any errors. But now when i open a
session by running cygwin.bat I get the minimalistic shell. I dont
have VI editor.Bash says command not found for 'vi' or 'vim' .
Per Cherwy wrote:
Hi CygWin
I have downloaded and installed coLinux and CygWin, because i found
the possibility to run Linux with X-interface in Windows very nice.
Below here you will find the error message from the XWin-log.
I hope you can help me to get it running.
Best regards,
Per C.
Here are some places to start:
http://www.waimea.org/wiki/CygwinXTroubleShooting
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-01/msg00098.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-12/msg00053.html
Mark Blaskovich wrote:
$ cd /usr/X11R6/bin/ startx
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The
I know nothing about X other than it is a good tool for some of the
things that I do.
I do not know if the following is of interest or not.
When the codebase was changed from Xfree86 to Xorg, the Mac-on-Linux
video driver
for Cygwin/X no longer worked.
I have been using X-Deep/32 for X usage
Barron J Bichon wrote:
I know this is a problem repeatedly posted on this list, but none of
the solutions I have read seem to work for me. I'm running cygwin
with XP Home (SP2). When I run startx I get this:
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.2.0-1
I don't know a lot about this, but the following line is in the attached
cygcheck.out
Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path
If I recall correctly, this is a bad thing.
Dave Korn wrote:
-Original Message-
From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dave Korn
Sent: 06 December 2004
You should be able to manually edit /etc/passwd.
Just change your username there.
Regards,
Ken
Samuel Hund wrote:
Unfortunately I need to change my user name on cygwin from the one used by
XP. I tried adding a mkgroup and useradd, but neither worked. Can you
help?
sam
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Andy Wagoner wrote:
Hi,
How do I set up startxwin.bat to use wmaker? I've got every possible package installed, I'm sure its just a quick config in the bat file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Andy
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-x-ug.html
\id.exe (ntsec)
UID: 1006(kdibble) GID: 545(Users)
513(None)544(Administrators)
545(Users)
SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
CYGWIN = `tty ntsec'
HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Ken Dibble'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/home/kdibble'
USER = `kdibble'
ALLUSERSPROFILE = `C:\Documents
Dave Korn wrote:
-Original Message-
From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Ken Dibble
Sent: 05 October 2004 10:21
I'm trying to build a Linux gui app and failing miserably.
Any help would be appreciated.
$ pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0
gnome-config: not found
Package gobject-2.0
Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
Hallo Ken,
Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 um 11:21 schriebst du:
I'm trying to build a Linux gui app and failing miserably.
Any help would be appreciated.
$ pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0
gnome-config: not found
Package gobject-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config
Ken Dibble wrote:
Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
Hallo Ken,
Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 um 11:21 schriebst du:
I'm trying to build a Linux gui app and failing miserably.
Any help would be appreciated.
$ pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0
gnome-config: not found
Package gobject-2.0 was not found
Start here:
http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Mamedov, Joel wrote:
I get startx: bash: startx: command not found
message.
I have downloaded and installed a full package.
I can't find startx anywhere in cygwin folders.
I'm probably going to get you in trouble here (seeing as I know nothing
about perl or apache).
Why couldn't you set the environment variable PERL5LIB
in your apache config file using the SetEnv directive?
The PERL5LIB environment variable would then (theoretically)
be prepended to @INC.
I don't know anything about Python but I do know that
'c:/foo' and 'c:/foo/bar' are not windows paths.
c:\foo and c:\foo\bar are.
This probably doesn't help though.
Regards,
Ken
Andres Corrada-Emmanuel wrote:
Hello,
I just ran across an inconsistency on the os.path module for Cygwin
Python,
Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:48:49PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
I don't know anything about Python but I do know that
'c:/foo' and 'c:/foo/bar' are not windows paths.
c:/foo and c:/foo/bar are perfectly acceptable windows paths. Some
windows utilities don't accept this style
Given that you are using cygwin binaries which assume a POSIX
environment in a DOS environment,
I am surprised that it ever works.
Koduru, Seshasai wrote:
Hi,
Following is the test case:
START-
C:\c:\cygwin\bin\mkdir.exe -p c:\src c:\dst
C:\c:\cygwin\bin\touch.exe
There was some discussion about this relatively recently.
I can't seem to locate the message right now.
If I recall correctly, these messages happen whenever a virtual table
has to be created
and someone knowledgeable(not me!) said not to worry about it.
It had something to do with a change in
from
man ssh
-
The file $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys lists the public keys that are per-
mitted for logging in.
ssh implements the RSA authentication protocol automatically. The user
creates his/her RSA key pair by running ssh-keygen(1). This stores the
private key in
log in to the HPUX box as applmgr and run ssh-keygen
as follows
ssh-keygen -t rsa -N
the quotes are important as this gives you a null passphrase
It will generate id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files in $HOME/applmgr/.ssh/
copy $HOME/applmgr/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to $HOME/applmgr/.ssh/ authorized_keys2
move
I am assuming that English is not your first language.
Cygwin-function doesn't really have a meaning.
Cygwin is a POSIX emulation layer for Windows.
I am inferring from the phrase Win32's GetCurrentDirectory()
that you are programming in some compiled language, most likely C or C++.
If the above
A cursory search of the cygwin-xfree mailing list
would have returned
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-06/msg00100.html
(and more)
which talks about a variety of reasons for X failing
including
mounts,
firewalls,
and others.
If you have already read and followed these suggestions,
I am unable to determince what the error is, not knowing anything about
gcc, fltk or fltk-config
the following command produces a gui executable (at least for this
trivial example)
which prints Hello World to the console when Open is selected from the
File menu.
gcc test.cxx -lfltk -lstdc++
just for grins, what happens with
start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100
?
Andrew Schulman wrote:
I run XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100 . I can copy and paste from X
to Windows clients, but not from Windows to X clients. Windows to Windows
and X to X copies also work fine.
I have this problem intermittently.
It seems to only happen when I forget to hit Ctrl-C on the windows side.
I forget that just highlighting the text isn't good enough after being
spoiled on the X side.
Andrew Schulman wrote:
I run XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100 . I can copy and
It's probably best to address things one at a time.
Immediately after you do the install (i.e. before you make changes),
what happens when you double-click startxwin.bat?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm feeling pretty frustrated and stupid at the moment, because after 3
days of
I'd first check that your .xinitrc is executable.
Failing that:
http://www.cygwin.com/problems.html
dc wrote:
Simple Question: How do I get a gnome-session to always start when I
startx.
I have set my path to include the x11/bin.
I have made an ~/.xinitrc file containing exec gnome-session line.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, thankyou to all the replies so far - I appreciate it very much. It's
still not working but here are the answers to your questions:
-
From Ken Dibble -
Immediately after you do the install (i.e. before you make changes
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-07/msg00192.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-07/msg00181.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-07/msg00161.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-07/msg00158.html
I'm not 100 % sure what you are saying.
Are you trying to say that the cygwin sshd does not respect the -X and
-Y flags
passed to the local ssh process?
And that for the above named reason you are forced to manually set the
DISPLAY variable?
regards,
ken
peter waltman wrote:
hi -
trying to
One starting point is
http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/
They say that they have GTK+ 2.44 runtime for windows both with and
separate from libglade.
regards,
ken
Jani tiainen wrote:
Is there version that is not compiled against X11 libraries (so it
uses native Windows) available or do I have to
peter waltman wrote:
Ken Dibble kdibbleNOSPAM at alltel.net writes:
I'm not 100 % sure what you are saying.
Are you trying to say that the cygwin sshd does not respect the -X and
-Y flags
passed to the local ssh process?
And that for the above named reason you are forced to manually set
)544(Administrators)
545(Users)
SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
CYGWIN = `tty ntsec'
HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Ken Dibble'
PWD = `/home/Ken Dibble'
!EXITCODE = `'
ALLUSERSPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\All Users'
APPDATA = `C:\Documents and Settings\Ken Dibble
don't know
if it a perl thing or a cygwin-perl thing.
This is my first go round with perl so be gentle :)
cygcheck attached
There I see:
HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Ken Dibble'
PWD = `/home/Ken Dibble'
Maybe it is a problem with the space in your HOME path?
Gerrit
G.
/home
Larry Hall wrote:
At 11:05 AM 8/6/2004, you wrote:
$ cygcheck -s -v -r | grep home
HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Ken Dibble'
PWD = `/home/kdibble'
OLDPWD = `/home/kdibble'
$ echo $HOME
/home/kdibble
So obviously there is something weird going on, any idea why cygcheck
says home is one thing, but bash
This might be a good place to start:
http://cygwin.com/problems.html
yvb wrote:
Hello,
I can't use man command.
When I try to running for example:
man ls
I get this error:
locale: not found
/usr/bin/nroff: invalid option -c
I am running XP Home and the latest version of Cygwin.
Thanks
Yury
--
These are some of the things I have heard people complain about:
the entry
127.0.0.1 localhost
is not in /etc/hosts file
Are you configured to use a proxy server? (AOL ?)
Do you have multiple network interfaces enabled?
Do you have a network drive mapped to your computer?
Are you using Trumpet
Start by reading and following the instructions here:
http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Joe Bungo wrote:
Hello
Im trying to play with GNU tools, and Im having trouble getting started.
I havent really played in a unix environment in years. Have you had a
chance to use them? Im just following along
It would be helpful if you would read
http://cygwin.com/problems.html
and follow the directions therein.
michael conrad wrote:
Im trying to find/run make, I did a complete install of everthing, but make
is not there.
What am I doing wrong, how do I get it?
mike conrad
408-395-6500 work
I am unable to locate the package searching the cygwin packages (not
that my being unable to
find something means anything).
I can tell you that dmalloc (on sourceforge) builds cleanly (requiring
gcc and g++) and passes
its self tests on my XP box.
I am sure that someone better informed that I
Does the remote machine have X forwarding turned on?
Wey Leong wrote:
Hi,
I used ssh -Y -l username remote_IP to connect to a remote machine.
After login to remote machine, I tried to run xterm and fluent.
But both gave me an error saying that Can't open display (please
see attached JPEG and LOG
I just edited the appropriate fields in /etc/passwd. (first field and
next to last field)
Ken
George wrote:
Could someone enlighten me as to how to go about changing the defaults?
Ideally, I'd like to be able to change the location of $HOME
altogether, but more importantly my $USERNAME
Richard Lister wrote:
Hi folks
I'm trying to build a working expectk using the expect-20030128
source from cygwin. Tcl/Tk and expect build fine. I noted the
following comment in the file expect-20030128-1/expect/Makefile.in:
# XXX Temporarily commented out until expectk is working again.
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
On Sat, 22 May 2004 14:07:27 -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
In the exim 4.32 source (spool_in.c)
the following line causes an error condition if the user who
instantiated the exim process has a space in their name.
if (sscanf(CS big_buffer, %s %ld %ld, originator, uid
I know this isn't a cygwin only problem, but my research has failed to
produce an
instance of this ever happening.
Common sense says it is just more likely to happen in a NT/XP
environment with cygwin.
For reference, this is exim 4.32, downloaded last week.
In the exim 4.32 source (spool_in.c)
Tarun Sharma wrote:
Hi
I have just installed cygwin on my Win XP system. But when I try to start
windowmaker then it justs says cant start x-server at 127.0.0.1:0.0 . I
tried few more things but couldnt succeed.
Ihe porblem I am thinking is related to some configuration. I also tried to
run XWin.
Jason House wrote:
I've gone through all the steps to set up postgreSQL on windows XP. I
have updated permissions (to /tmp /usr/bin /usr/bin/*), verified the
system path variable, and verified that ipc and postmaster services
have been started. I don't understand why I'm getting the
Alan Cooley wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem with a C program. It appears that static variables
are not being initialized when in an object file. The program compiles and
links fine but funcPtrStruct.ptr is null so program crashes.
This program works using gcc on Linux and (as I
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Ken,
At 16:38 2003-07-07, Ken Dibble wrote:
Ok, I'm an idiot. I've looked in the FAQ, searched the mail lists
and checked sundry Unix sources (no, not the source code).
Well, I doubt greatly that you're an idiot. Confusion is the prelude
to enlightenment, after all
Brian Dessent wrote:
Ken Dibble wrote:
As you can see, there are indeed some directories, but a whole bunch of
files
which shouldn't be there as well.
The big question now is why are some files considered directories?
I don't see the confusion here. You're feeding to ls -l
GID: le)
(None) groups=513(None)
C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (ntsec)
UID: 1006(KenGID: le)
(None) groups=513(None) 544(Administrators)
545(Users)
SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Ken Dibble'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/'
USER = `Ken Dibble
Larry Hall wrote:
Ken Dibble wrote:
Larry Hall wrote:
Ken Dibble wrote:
It appears I've isolated the problem.
I downloaded and installed 1.13 of the ipc-daemon.
I am aware that this daemon has another issue, but if fixes my
problem.
Possibly when the XP Fast-Switch problem was fixed
It appears I've isolated the problem.
I downloaded and installed 1.13 of the ipc-daemon.
I am aware that this daemon has another issue, but if fixes my problem.
Possibly when the XP Fast-Switch problem was fixed, another was introduced.
Should I report this elsewhere as well?
Thanks,
Ken
--
Larry Hall wrote:
Ken Dibble wrote:
It appears I've isolated the problem.
I downloaded and installed 1.13 of the ipc-daemon.
I am aware that this daemon has another issue, but if fixes my problem.
Possibly when the XP Fast-Switch problem was fixed, another was
introduced.
Should I report
and restart it. The result is
the same error message.
Rebooting allows you to start up the database, then the same behaviour
is repeated.
Thanks for your time.
Ken Dibble
Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Fri Jun 06 21:55:36 2003
Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build
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